Oedipus Rex - Translate the Quote. 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureOedipus RexA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: hannahcockerCreated on: 03-06-15 17:43 The weight of what you said can't just be brushed aside; the consequences are severe. "The injury that such a word may do is no mere trifle, but more vast than any" - Creon. 1 of 29 Me, the one and only famous Oedipus, has come to help you. "I have myself come hither, Oedipus, known far and wide by name" - Oedipus. 2 of 29 Trying to make the gods do what you want is impossible. "To constrain the gods to what they will not, passes all men's power." - Oedipus. 3 of 29 May you discover the truth, mighty and eternal Zeus. "Zeus... be this not hid from Thee, nor from Thy might, which endeth never." - Chorus. 4 of 29 Pride is the ultimate undoing of kings - if it gets too large, their downfall approaches. "Pride is the germ of kings; Pride, when puffed up, vainly... mounts the wall, only to hurry to the fatal flaw"- Chorus. 5 of 29 I don't pay attention to what my superiors do. "I do not know, I have no eyes for what my masters do." - Senator. 6 of 29 You have eyes, but you don't use them! "You have your sight, and do not see." - Tiresias. 7 of 29 Trust me, humans don't need to depend on visions and prophecies. "Listen and learn, nothing in human life turns on the soothsayer's art." - Jocasta. 8 of 29 You're all sick, and I'm the most sick. "You are all sick, I know it, and in your sickness there is not one of you so sick as I." - Oedipus. 9 of 29 Your eyes, ears and mind know nothing at all! "Blind as you are in eyes, and ears, and mind!" - Oedipus. 10 of 29 He stabbed his own eyes out; blood gushed down his face all at once. "Smote the nerves of his own eyeballs... the blood ran down his face, not drop by drop, but all at once, in a dark shower of gore." - Messenger. 11 of 29 How horrible darkness is, covering everything! "Thou horror of thick darkness overspread!" - Oedipus. 12 of 29 Gods who control fate, find the one who's causing the plague; his doom traps him. "Averters of my fate... hunt down the Unknown... that with swift wings' beat for ever circles him round." - Chorus. 13 of 29 You'll be exiled from this land due to the curse laid on you by your parents. "Soon from this land shall drive you, stalking grim, your mother's and father's two-edged curse" - Tiresias. 14 of 29 Some horrible things were mentioned in the prophecy... children not fit to be seen by anyone. "Strange and lamentable things revealed... produce a race intolerable for men to see." - Oedipus. 15 of 29 The persion who saved me from death actually made things worse! "He who saved me alive, who rescued me from fate, shewing no kindness to me!" - Oedipus. 16 of 29 Come to your brother, children... sadly, you'll never marry, you will be shunned. "Come, come hither to my arms - to these brotherly arms... but you needs must wither, barren - unwed." - Oedipus. 17 of 29 My baby blankets were horrible, sinful. "A shameful sort of swaddling bands were mine." - Oedipus. 18 of 29 So gods, what do you say to this? "O prophecies of Gods, where are you now?" - Jocasta. 19 of 29 I don't want to be a king. "Neither am I, by nature, covetous to be a king." - Creon. 20 of 29 It's not fair to accuse good men of doing bad things, and vice versa. "For just is it not to hold bad men for good, good men for bad." - Creon. 21 of 29 Listen to me. Whoever the criminal is, as your king and ruler, I demand that nobody should speak to him. "You must hear me say what I shall do. Whoe'er he be, I order that of this land, whose power and throne are mine, none entertain him" - Oedipus. 22 of 29 You were doomed until I arrived and killed her using only my brains! "Till I came, the unlettered Oedipus, and ended her, by sleight of wit" - Oedipus. 23 of 29 By killing the Sphinx, we made you the most important person in Thebes, and respected you. "Slaying thy monster-maid... for this cause thou hast been named our king and honoured in the highest" - Chorus. 24 of 29 I'm so sorry, my king, forgive me. "Pardon, my lord; pardon, my illustrious sir" - Oedipus. 25 of 29 Who else could have been cursed with such hatred from the gods? "Who on earth could have been born with more hate from heaven?" - Oedipus. 26 of 29 Knowledge is a bad thing, as it only causes worse things to happen. "How terrible it is to know, when no good comes of knowing." - Tiresias. 27 of 29 I'm free, as I know the truth. "I am Free! For I have in me the strength of truth." - Tiresias. 28 of 29 I will never look upon the light again. "O Light, this be the last time I shall gaze on thee" - Oedipus. 29 of 29
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